Loren Cass features Boggess Music & Sound's Signature Audio Post Production

LOREN CASS - Feature Length Film 2009-2010
Loren Cass features the signature sound effects design, Foley, audio post editorials and mix of Gary Boggess

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Loren Cass has been released nationally and premiered at the Village Cinema in NYC 7/24/09

The reviewer in the New York Times wrote:"Mr. Fuller’s preternatural confidence is matched by a rare wisdom in selecting collaborators. Shooting on 16-millimeter film with wide-angle lenses, the cinematographer William Garcia floods the images with rich color and deep shadows, expertly evoking the endless, worn-out sprawl of St. Petersburg. Equal credit for the movie’s power and poetry goes to Gary Boggess for his extraordinary sound work, a dense, enveloping mix of drones, disruptions, pop songs and howls of hardcore punk." - 7/24/2009

The Los Angeles Times wrote: "In the boldest and most effective gambit... there's no denying the originalityor harrowing force of Fuller and his sound designer, Gary Boggess... " - 1/3/2010

"Loren Cass was precisely shot and sound-designed." - Museum Of Modern Art (MoMa), NYC (2007)

""The sound editing and effects are truly astounding. The fights sound like they are actual, bone-crushing, terrifying fights. The dialog sounds like you are in the room, the diner, the street, etc., listening to it exactly. And, unlike, say, a dogma feature, the reality of it is heightened by whatever techniques Gary (Boggess) used. As an experience, as a sound and imagery collage, it's extraordinary..." - William, Viennale Film Reviews: Vienna, Austria (2007)

Other Film Review Excerpts:
"4 Stars. Uncompromising...nihilistic to the extreme...in terms of low-budget filmmaking aspiring past its limitations, LOREN CASS is the real deal." - Andrew Grant, Time Out New York

"A powerfully unsettling debut...LOREN CASS wants to blow your head off...a starkly lyrical portrait of angry disaffected teens …Fuller's in-your-face artistic precision makes this a radical film." - Aaron Hillis, Village Voice NYC

"Announces a genuinely original filmmaking talent...as tough-minded and uncompromising as narrative cinema gets...a film debut of uncommon power and artistic principle." - Robert Koehler, Variety
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BMS completes the entire audio post production for the feature film "Loren Cass"
January-November 2007, and now released 7/25/09

Gary produced the entire audio post editorials, sound design and soundtrack mix for the feature film, "Loren Cass." The film premiered at the Palm's Casino CineVegas film festival this June 6-16, 2007. Gary's audio post work included sound effects design, dialog editorials, music editorials and final soundtrack mixing. The film has sparse dialog, requiring that the Foley & sound effects design hold's the viewer's attention. Boggess, as the Foley artist, walked for every actor in the film... as well as performed every single move, often handling props and creating detailed sound effects for every visible object in the film. After premiering at the Las Vegas Cine Festival and the Lecarno Festival in Switzerland, the film has received positive reviews in magazines on two continents, including Variety Magazine.

Read the review in Variety Magazine, June 13th 2007

Nominated for New York City's 2007 Gotham Awards!
IFP Gotham Awards co-sponsored by Filmmaker magazine & the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMa).
"Loren Cass" also premiered at the 2007 CineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas
and at the Lecarno Film Festival in Switzerland, "reknowned for it's rigorous selection."

See the trailer

Festival Showings

In June 2007, "Loren Cass" was eligible for three awards including the Golden Leopard, the CineVegas Festival's Cinema Special Jury Prize, and the Leopard for First Film.

In August of 2007, "Loren Cass" was selected to have its official International Premiere in the prestigious Filmmakers of the Present Competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, one of the oldest cinema events in the world. The festival renowned for their rigorous selection, was held August 1st-11th in Locarno, Switzerland.

Loren Cass was nominated for New York City's 17th Annual IFP Gotham Awards - 2007
"Loren Cass," was one of 5 nominees selected from a pool of films chosen by the Gotham Award sponsors, Filmmaker Magazine and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York City.

The Gotham Awards are co-sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine and the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMa).
No doubt, Boggess' sound design & audio work contributed to the film's success:

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Gary Boggess, Foley Artist with some of the Foley props used for "Loren Cass"

Boggess explains:
"Since the film leans heavily on a narrative style, there's very little dialog in the film. Therefore, the audio is ALL about sound design and the Foley effects. From scene to scene, I had to create and recreate 91% of the sounds heard in the this film, from scratch. I walked, ran and/or jumped for each character in the film! I did cloth and movement for each character, and performed detailed handling of everything from: beer bottles, loading bullets, moving chairs, body punches, drinking binges, pill popping, and even taking clothing on/off. I handled keys, poured Jack Daniel's, picked up coins, opened desk drawers, searched through garbage, and more. I even smoked, kissed and breathed for the actors! This recreative work included every door, door handle, chair, car, truck, motorcycle, shopping basket, background environment, city sounds, wind, ambience, birds and.... practically EVERY SOUND you hear. The only original production sounds that made it into the final mix were those that came along with the sparse dialog tracks and video news reels.

This film is about moods... and most scenes tend to be all about subtle emotions and introspective thought with minimal responses. So, the 'sound' of the environs, and of each movement become as important to 'telling the story' as the sparse dialog. Even though I have a large Sound Ideas sound effect library, I still had to create almost everything from scratch to maintain the intimacy and sonic detail that the film's "inner space" demanded. The end result keeps the viewer intimately involved via sound."

"One of my favorite scenes was the bus ride with the character named Cale. I recorded wild audio on a city bus in St. Pete in November of 2004 on a re-shoot. I used two Shoeps condensers in an MS stereo configuration to maximize the wide stereo image... to almost 3-D. With some very careful editing... you'd swear the sound was shot with the film footage!! Turns, starts, stops, road bumps, turns, shakes, slowdowns and etc., all fit together perfectly. The MS stereo audio sounds HUGE, almost as if you're on this bus! It makes for a very effective change of pace in the film, since most scenes are on quiet streets at night, quiet interior rooms and other locales that are practically static. The bus rocks! As Cale is riding, he daydreams of being at a grave site where he starts jumping... and with each jump, the rattling & shaking bus SFX sync with his feet as they impact on the ground... building until an edit where the bus shake wakes him up. It's just a grand moment in the audio design, where an opportunity to combine two opposite sound categories with an end or peak that made logical sense.

Another moment in the sound design that required inordinate attention was a dumpster scene... but I'll stop the expose' here! Due to limited budget, time, and the enormous task of building audio for each scene from the ground up... the sound was produced only in stereo.

Careful planning of movements from left to right with respect to the proximity of the sounds to the viewer, aided in the film's impact. Most of the audio for Loren is extremely subtle but very detailed... and it's all these details that keeps the ears & eyes connected and stimulated."

"Loren Cass" tells a rather dark story... centered around young adults who are dealing with despair, frustration, anger, and suicide... all while growing up during the mid '90's in the midst of the punk (rock) culture & racial tensions the led to the riots in St. Petersburg, FL.

Boggess and film crew, with actors Chris Fuller and Kayla Tabish
RESHOOTS: L to R is... Gary Boggess, boom/recordist, the film crew,
on the camera is the Director Of Photography, William Garcia.

Other reviews of "Loren Cass" at these websites:

www.lorencass.com

VARIETY Magazine

Nolan's Pop Culture Review

Weekly Planet: Film- "Loren Cass"

Punk News: "Loren Cass"

Loren Unfinished

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